. I'l. \N \ 1 IONS OF HIS !!.!( ill I 23 



f twenty miles to the tooth of the town ; the 



roads were so bad that even a King's oou< 



years later, drawn by eight horses, could not make 



i linger stage than five miles; an invading army 



unit l.i move more *1 The north road towards 



the sea was ele.-i o enemy: and the German 



st* extended no farther than the palace at 



nhansen, about a mile and a half from tin- 



A illiain I i 



yed along the Bremen road, and at last 



way to Hamburg, to \vhich his trunk was 



sent after him. In th<- following year ho appears to 



have crossed the sea to England. Obscurity then 



ugitive's wanderings for nearly ten years, 



or six pages of sorrowful <l*t uU are torn* 



his sister's journal at t ! 



wanderer is lost in darkness. More is toM l>y her of 



ings and going* 



an. I ungenerous treatment oi m of the brother 



u she worslt We could have taken less of 



Jacob, an.l in-!-.- .f William, "the best and dearest of 

 icrs," as the circumstances manifestly required. 

 he lapse of seventy years Caroline H creche 1 

 y as she <li<! at tirst the unpleasantness of 

 iier's flight from Hanover. On his return as 

 ng's messenger in 1786, bearing a King's present 

 to the University of Gottingen, the editor of th-- 

 iigen Mitgazine of Science and Literature got 

 him some particulars of his early lif<>, \\ !. 

 I have been bett had not furni.slu^l. 



my lift. -nth yrar. ho wrote, "I mlist'<l in mil 

 service, only remaining in the army, however, until I 

 reached my nineteenth year, wh< n I resigned, and 



